Wikidata:Status updates/2015 01 10

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2015-01-10.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Upcoming: Office hour on IRC on Friday. You should come :)
• Past: London Wikidata Meetup 2
  • We had a meetup with nine people:
  • set up Wikidata:WikiProject UK and Ireland (sound recording of meeting available)
• Upcoming: Open Data Day, 21st February 2015
  • For generic wiki, see International Open Data Day
  • Open Data Camp UK, Saturday/Sunday 21st/22nd February 2015

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• We just crossed 14000 active users (over the last month). Thank you all!

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Gray's Anatomy 1918 subject, Total valid votes, inverse of, NLP identifier
• Newest WikiProjects: Food, UK and Ireland, Suisse
• Newest gadgets: ExportClaims, Mark as patrolled from list of changes

Development

• The sitelink section has been reworked. This will go live on Wikidata on Tuesday. The sitelinks will then be slimmer and they will appear in a sidebar on the right side if there is enough space.
• More performance improvements when parsing an item page, ~%15 faster for some pages :)
• Titan was selected as the graph DB to implement a Wikidata query service running in production
• Fixed adding links to ru.wikinews.org which was broken by its change to HTTPS-only
• Worked on redesigning the header area (label, description, alias, in-other-languages box)
• Polished d:Wikidata:Data access and d:Wikidata:Database download. Could still use some more work though if you have time.
• Enabled PHP_CodeSniffer with Mediawiki rules and some additional ones to make us aware of more code issues
• We no longer log some common 404 errors in the exception log

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here

Monthly Tasks

• Hack on one of these.
• Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
• Help develop the next summary here!
• Contribute to a Showcase item

Anything to add? Please share! :)